July 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[Poodlemum]

Two cute little pullets

 

[WIchickMama]

how is everyone's July chicks doing? anyone got final numbers of boys vs girls yet?

 

[Poodlemum]

They’re basically off heat and getting ready to move to the baby box in the coop! Both pullets, but likely only keeping the EE. Hoping for green to olive eggs!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I'm still not 100% on girls or boys and I only kept 3! Lol...hazards of Silkies and Satins!
But they are looking more girlee than they were!

 

[junior67]

Here are some of my babies. I have re-homed 3 I was confident was girls, and 1 I think was a girl. I have 2 girls, 3 boys and 1 I am iffy on but leaning to girl.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Here are some of my babies. I have re-homed 3 I was confident was girls, and 1 I think was a girl. I have 2 girls, 3 boys and 1 I am iffy on but leaning to girl.

Oh! They are so adorable! And the colors!!! Are they all cochins?

 

[junior67]

Oh! They are so adorable! And the colors!!! Are they all cochins?

3 of them are cochins the other 7 are project chicks the breeder has been working on for 3 years. They are cochin/EE crosses and worked on to look just like Cochins but they lay green eggs. And I must say they do look just like Cochins since I can't tell which ones are which. haahaa. Some of the project have the EE comb but some have straight combs. The breeder said the Cochins would have yellow legs but I have 2 Roos with yellow and 1 (I think) pullet..... Which would mean that somehow I kept all 3 Cochins but not sure if that is right. LOL

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have all my babies, I added some that were 2 months older but were low on the pecking order. (and the same size as the young ones. But healthy.)

 

[WIchickMama]

mama hen weaned the babies yesterday--man it was a quick process couple days of giving them space and not calling them to eat to pecking at them and wanting NOTHING to do with them. chicks will be 8 weeks on Sat and are like 'what is happening?!', they came out to eat and chill when I was out there otherwise they spent most of the day in the coop on roosts--they will be ok but it is a hard transition. Pictures to come this weekend, I am needing help with 2 with gender!

 

[junior67]

mama hen weaned the babies yesterday--man it was a quick process couple days of giving them space and not calling them to eat to pecking at them and wanting NOTHING to do with them. chicks will be 8 weeks on Sat and are like 'what is happening?!', they came out to eat and chill when I was out there otherwise they spent most of the day in the coop on roosts--they will be ok but it is a hard transition. Pictures to come this weekend, I am needing help with 2 with gender!

wow your mama mothered them for a decent amount of time. So far mine have decided around 4-5 weeks they are done and start to roost again and leave the babies down in the nest box. Think I had one that went to 5.5 or 6 weeks. The one mama I have is still going strong and the babies just turned 5 weeks so guess we see how long she goes.